Gallery – Interwar Borderlands

Weronika Muszak

Halina Babinska

Before WWII

Poland

Halina's parents and siblings in Baranowicze early 1930's

Halina Miros

Before WWII

Poland

Dąbrowa Colony, Kresy. 20 January 1936.

Apolonia Kojder

Before WWII

Poland

Pre-WWII family home

Halina Kozlowska

During WWII

Poland

Wilno

Józef, Stanisław, Bronisław, Genia and Genowefa at Sienkiewicze. The formally posed photograph of, perhaps, 1931 is meant to portray a reasonally well-to-do family in a comfortable setting.

Janusz Michalak

Before WWII

Poland

Sienkiewicze

Wanda’s mother, Florentyna Szozda, aged about 17, before her marriage

Wanda Gillon

Before WWII

Poland

Skalat

Sitting beside Wiesław are cousins Leszek, and Krystyna Szozda - Skalat, Poland, 1933.

Wanda Gillon

Before WWII

Poland

Skalat

Franciszek Turkiewicz, Przemysl State Police ID

Mark Turkiewicz

Before WWII

Poland

Przemysl

Stanislaw Tarazewicz in Wilno – July 1939

Stanislaw Tarazewicz

Before WWII

Poland

Wilno

Tourism postcard Czarnohora mountains_front

Henry Sokolowski

Before WWII

Poland

Stanisławowskie

Julian’s school certificate, 1936-1937

Julian Rybarczyk

Before WWII

Poland

RYSZARD_1937

Helen Bitner

Poland

My babcia Julia Pacewicz nee Paradowska born Krzemieniec 1900. She was deported to Kazakhstan on 13th April 1940 from Rowne with two of her children Wladyslaw (my father) and Jadwiga. Her eldest son Jozef missed the arrest and was not allowed on the cattle wagon with them. Julia's husband (my grandfather) Jan Pacewicz, PP, was murdered in the Katyn massacre. After release from the USSR with Anders Army, Julia was a refugee in Koja, East Africa and settled in the UK in 1948.

Anna Pacewicz

Before WWII

Poland

Krzemieniec

Hucuł (aka Hutsul) -2 of 8 – Czarnohora mountains

Henry Sokolowski

Before WWII

Poland

Stanislawow

Lwów_view 2 of 3

Henry Sokolowski

Before WWII

Rogozinski family in Poland, 1930s

Marcelo Rogozinski

Before WWII

Poland

Rogozinski family in Poland in 1935

Marcelo Rogozinski

Before WWII

Poland

“POLICJA PAŃSTWOWA II RZECZYPOSPOLITEJ” Jacek Walaszczyk www.policjapanstwowa.pl Warszawskie Stowarzyszenie Rodzina Policyjna 1939r. Wytworzona i przedstawiona na konferencji “Pamięć Pokoleń” Fundacji “Kresy-Syberia” w Warszawie, dnia 19 września 2016r.

Jacek Walaszczyk

Before WWII

Poland

Frank Kustra’s Family in Lwow

Frank Kustra

Before WWII

Poland

Lwow

Ryszarda Bardaczewski’s Birth certificate

Ryszarda Bardaczewska

During WWII

Poland

My Grandfather Stanislaw Gorczynski

Danuta Morgan

Before WWII

Poland

Drawing of her home in the Kresy

Danuta Morgan

During WWII

Danuta, her step brother Jan Czmiz, her father Wladyslaw Gorczynski, and Aniela walking on the promenade Miekiewieza in Lwow.

Danuta Morgan

Before WWII

Poland

Lwow

In Poland, before the War, on the street of Akademieka. I was 7 years old, just started school.

Danuta Morgan

Before WWII

Poland

Danuta in Poland at age one, with her brother and mother.

Danuta Morgan

Before WWII

Poland

Babcia Matylda

Danuta Morgan

Poland

My father’s mother, Matylda Gorczynska

Danuta Morgan

Before WWII

Poland

My mother Aniela Szutryk at an earlier age, before she wed her first husband Jan Czmik.

Danuta Morgan

Before WWII

Poland

Danuta and her mother

Danuta Morgan

Before WWII

Poland

Sailors from the Polish Navy, on a training course in Gydnia, 10th May 1939. Artur Nowaczyk is in the front row, far right.

Julianne Morris

During WWII

Poland

Gdynia

Polish navy